1975 Major League Baseball season

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to: navigation, search

<templatestyles src="Module:Hatnote/styles.css"></templatestyles>

The 1975 Major League Baseball season.

1975 MLB season
League Major League Baseball
Sport Baseball
Duration April 7, 1975 – September 28, 1975
Regular season
Season MVP AL: Fred Lynn (BOS)
NL: Joe Morgan (CIN)
Postseason
AL champions Boston Red Sox
  AL runners-up Oakland Athletics
NL champions Cincinnati Reds
  NL runners-up Pittsburgh Pirates
World Series
Champions Cincinnati Reds
  Runners-up Boston Red Sox
Finals MVP Pete Rose (CIN)
MLB seasons

News and notes

  • Frank Robinson became the first black manager in the Major Leagues. He managed the Cleveland Indians.
  • At the All-Star Break, there were discussions of Bowie Kuhn’s reappointment. Charlie Finley, New York owner George Steinbrenner and Baltimore owner Jerry Hoffberger were part of a group that wanted him gone.[1] Finley was trying to convince the new owner of the Texas Rangers Brad Corbett that MLB needed a more dynamic commissioner.[2] During the vote, Baltimore and New York decided to vote in favour of the commissioner’s reappointment. In addition, there were discussions of expansion for 1977, with Seattle and Washington, D.C. as the proposed cities for expansion.

Regular season standings

Postseason

  League Championship Series World Series
                 
East  Boston 3  
West  Oakland 0  
    AL  Boston 3
  NL  Cincinnati 4
East  Pittsburgh 0
West  Cincinnati 3  

Statistical leaders

  American League National League
Type Name Stat Name Stat
AVG Rod Carew MIN .359 Bill Madlock CHC .354
HR Reggie Jackson OAK
George Scott MIL
36 Mike Schmidt PHI 38
RBI George Scott MIL 109 Greg Luzinski PHI 120
Wins Jim Palmer BAL
Catfish Hunter NYY
23 Tom Seaver NYM 22
ERA Jim Palmer BAL 2.09 Randy Jones SDP 2.24
SO Frank Tanana CAL 269 Tom Seaver NYM 243
SV Rich Gossage CHW 26 Rawly Eastwick CIN
Al Hrabosky STL
22
SB Mickey Rivers CAL 70 Davey Lopes LAD 77

References

  1. Charlie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball's Super Showman, p.226, G. Michael Green and Roger D. Launius. Walker Publishing Company, New York, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8027-1745-0
  2. Charlie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball's Super Showman, p.227, G. Michael Green and Roger D. Launius. Walker Publishing Company, New York, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8027-1745-0

External links


<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>